New Images of POTP Finished Toys Including Abominus Combined and Optimal Optimus with Flight Mode

We now have images from Amazon Japan and Dengeki Hobby showing us Power of the Primes Abominus combined and Optimal Optimus with flight mode, among other images. While these are images from Takara, the releases are the very same as the Hasbro versions, as with every toy part of this line (both in the in fact that they are released individually and look the same).

However, this gives western fans something truly amazing that we never had before. The marketing technique of Hasbro and Takara have varied wildly in the past with Hasbro releasing official images of products using 3-d renders while Takara usually has high quality images of the actual finished product showing all of its possible configurations/gimmicks. Well, since both lines are the very same, this means that western fans can now be treated to this kind of marketing for toys they do not need to import.

So below you will see images of the following finished figures from the Power of the Primes line, well posed, well transformed (except for Optimal Optimus' robot mode), and showing all their possible configurations in terms of accompanying accessories.

Black Hat wrote:Optimal Optimus is gonna be hollow as hell. No thank you.

The Terrorcons look pretty great though. Will definitely try and nab them.

No more hollow than the original, or any of the other leader figures from this line

And besides, you can fill the cavity with primal to give him his screen accurate cannons anyways, so what is everyone bitching about? That he has so many options - more than any other figure in this class is awesome, it would have been easy for the designers to not bother trying to integrate primal into his suit in any way and force you to use the surfing monkey mode and bot mode only, but they didn't, and that's great

The thing I don't like about OpOp is that his unevolved form doesn't really turn into anything. I am trying to figure out how to make it look like something. Otherwise, all other forms look great. Heck, I bet he can basically turn into a hover tank that is an approximation of his ground form from Beast Wars.

Bludgeon doesn't turn into sword. Why? It would have been perfect. I hope some third party comes out with an alternate weapon.

The Sticking point is that in almost all cases of shared engineering across different toys, the two products are still dinctly different. TR Chromedome uses the same arm and leg principles as CW Dead End. But he’s clearly a different toy. The most infamous of shared engineering, the G2 Starscream (possibly better known as Smoke Sniper or Smokejumper, see WJ88’s sig pic) and Energon Starscream molds transform the same way, but they are clearly two different sizes and the jet kibble is different.

With HunGrr and Silverbot, you have two toys that are of the same size, same relative parts count, in the exact same blueprint, and they cast an almost identical profile as the other. This isn’t just “Oh, well he transforms the same way as this other toy” at the surface they have no less in common with each other than he Clones do. And its hard, when the human brain instinctively wants to find patterns (That’s why you see shapes in clouds) and explanations for things, to disconnect these two nigh—identical toys as anything other than being related.

The Sticking point is that in almost all cases of shared engineering across different toys, the two products are still dinctly different. TR Chromedome uses the same arm and leg principles as CW Dead End. But he’s clearly a different toy. The most infamous of shared engineering, the G2 Starscream (possibly better known as Smoke Sniper or Smokejumper, see WJ88’s sig pic) and Energon Starscream molds transform the same way, but they are clearly two different sizes and the jet kibble is different.

With HunGrr and Silverbot, you have two toys that are of the same size, same relative parts count, in the exact same blueprint, and they cast an almost identical profile as the other. This isn’t just “Oh, well he transforms the same way as this other toy” at the surface they have no less in common with each other than he Clones do. And its hard, when the human brain instinctively wants to find patterns (That’s why you see shapes in clouds) and explanations for things, to disconnect these two nigh—identical toys as anything other than being related.

The answer is simple: silverbolt made a damn solid torso, and abominus deserves only the best

partholon wrote:im trying to figure out what the hell bludgeons alt mode is.

Pretty sure it's supposed to be a Kanabo, a Japanese studded club that Samurai used, they tend to be octagonal, and have metal studs running down the sides, not so sure it carries over to the alt mode, it might be a gun, maybe, but the part the tm uses is definitely a Kanabo

Looking forward to Abominus, he was already a definite and Elita 1 has swayed me for her, though I'm quite happy to skip on Starscream. Optimal Optimus is pretty much awful compared to the original toy so I'll end up going third party eventually on him, when I fail to resist building up a beast wars collection again.

partholon wrote:im trying to figure out what the hell bludgeons alt mode is.

Pretty sure it's supposed to be a Kanabo, a Japanese studded club that Samurai used, they tend to be octagonal, and have metal studs running down the sides, not so sure it carries over to the alt mode, it might be a gun, maybe, but the part the tm uses is definitely a Kanabo

Well, at least his name finally is appropriate. Never understood why a Samurai armed with swords is named Bludgeon.

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